ICYF has partnered with Jennifer DeWall at Nutrition in Motionto create free sports-specific nutrition plans for the Indianola community. To help promote healthy eating habits and good character, we worked with Molly Rogalla and created banners to be rotated around at the local elementary schools featuring Indianola High School seniors.
When you consider that the teen years are a period of intense growth, not only physically but emotionally and intellectually, it’s understandable that it’s a time of confusion and upheaval for many families.
Indianola Middle School provides one great example of how the school district’s attendance centers identify improvement goals then go about striving to meet those goals. The over-arching goal that emerged from two different Instructional Rounds visits at Indianola Middle School the last two years was to make classrooms more student-centered, one of the Characteristics of Effective Instruction supported by the Iowa Department of Education.
Tips for Parenting During the Teen Years: Looking for a roadmap to find your way through these years? Here are some tips:
The average teen spends about nine hours per day using media for their enjoyment, according to a report by Common Sense Media. Frighteningly, those same teens spend less than an average of 10 minutes a day talking to their parents.